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TIL that Oak trees can hybridize naturally.

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9E4X TIL Christian music singer Amy Grant successfully sued Marvel Comics in 1991 for using her likeness for a cover of an issue of Dr. Strange because it indicated that she was associating with witchcraft
b9mZE TIL Heathrow Airport will provide a free sunflower lanyard to travelers with hidden disabilities so airport staff can recognize passengers who might need extra assistance without needing to declare it.
0O9v TIL that the woman who started the Mother’s Day tradition in the US was so opposed to its commercialization that she spent her whole inheritance and her remaining years of life protesting what the holiday had become
BjML TIL there is a Cyrillic letter so rare it is only used in the phrase “many-eyed Seraphim”
VMZvD TIL that the common saying to identify a poisonous snake, ‘Red touches black, friend of Jack. Res touches yellow will kill a fellow”, is only applicable in North America